IN July 2000, Anakbayan Central Visayas Chairman Marvin Marquez was killed in an encounter in Bohol. The communist New People’s Army (NPA) confirmed that Marvin was one of them and admitted that students from Cebu regularly visited NPA camps in Bohol. In the same encounter, a staff member of the Farmers Development Center, recently “Red-tagged,” was killed. She was in the camp with Marvin and the six other people who were killed in the encounter. One of the six was the wife of Federico “ka Val” Villalongha who was himself killed in an encounter eight years later in southern Negros. Killed together with Villalongha was Rachelle Mae “ka Hannah” Palang, a nursing graduate of Velez College in Cebu City and a former vice president for the Visayas of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines who became a “reserve element of the NPA.” (Bulatlat, Oct. 4, 2008).